The ATLAS (short for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) is a NASA-funded program developed by the University of ...

NASA astronomers have confirmed what may be the greatest discovery of the era. They found a significant reservoir of water that was hidden in the cosmos, and that surrounds a quasa ...

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

Texas lawmakers Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz celebrated priority provisions for their constituents with the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which allocates $85 million to study moving ...

Last week, seven former heads of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate signed a joint letter to Congress condemning the White ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but. The object’s trajectory revealed it to be a much rarer visitor than first ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Aster G. Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2023 Fannie ...

President Donald Trump is replacing acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro with U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. In a ...

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he is directing Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to be the interim NASA administrator.

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large Telescope. Other times, they come up with unique sounding names, like quasars ...